Impolite Learning

Impolite Learning Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750

Hardback (01 Jun 1995)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A portrait of a social and cultural community in which scholars were bound by a host of unwritten codes, highlighting the importance of social interaction for the intellectual world in the period immediately preceding the Enlightenment.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780300053593
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 001.1094
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 395
Weight: 940g
Height: 241mm
Width: 161mm
Spine width: 39mm